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8 Responses to “Guardian 24,572 – Orlando”

For those of us in the UK, 14ac has a topical reference: the MARSHALSEA was a debtors’ prison, which features prominently in Dickens’s novel ‘Little Dorrit’, a BBC adaptation of which has just finished its run.

The two long anagrams (1dn, 6dn) are splendid. 8dn has a rather good ‘Madama Butterfly’ connotation.

Overall, not a difficult one but got to agree with Uncle Yap – some witty cryptic definitions and elegant surfaces. The two big anagrams were clever but far too obvious – I was writing them in almost before I’d finished reading the clue.

I have to agree this was a nicely clued crossword, after one or two heavier going crosswords last week, a nice start to the week and this will give us new solvers heart for the tougher crosswords that im sure will follow in the week

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